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Sister Cities

The Sister Cities program aims to develop meaningful and long-term links with cities and communities in other countries to achieve a greater level of international understanding and goodwill between peoples and to share economic, community, cultural and social interaction.

Chinese Friendship Garden

The Chinese style garden is situated in the Cairns Botanic Gardens and was designed to celebrate the Sister Cities arrangement between Cairns and Zhanjiang and pays homage to the cultural heritage of the Cairns region.

The garden also provides a place of reflection for Chinese people visiting the city.

School of Arts building

Hosting a range of programs designed to bring local history to students and to complement the programs of International education providers.

An outreach program is also available, bringing local history to schools. The museum contains four permanent and one temporary gallery that showcases the story of Cairns from the Indigenous landscape through to the tourist gateway, The Great Barrier Reef.

Cairns Historical Society Research CentreStudents can discover the collection of more than 60,000 items of personal, professional and government papers, ephemera, books, unpublished reports, newspapers, photographs, journal articles, and maps.